»We are focusing on demonopolisation of the data on the web that is currently largely in the hands of the big tech companies outside of Europe. This is highly relevant for facilitating Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Natural Language Processing research.«

Dr. Jelena Mitrović
Leader of the CAROLL Research Group at the University of Passau

University of Passau

The Chair of Data Science at the University of Passau is headed by Prof. Michal Granitzer and conducts research on applied machine learning and information retrieval on web data. The chair is also host to the Junior research group “Computational Rhetoric in Social Media and Law – CAROLL” headed by Dr. Jelena Mitrović.

In OpenWebSearch.EU, the group is working on machine learning supported, resource efficient crawling and the development of specialised neural language models.

Website: uni-passau.de

Dr. Jelena Mitrović

Leader of the CAROLL Research Group at the University of Passau

https://ca-roll.github.io

Michael Granitzer, University of Passau, Professor for Data Science

Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer

Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer holds the Chair of Data Science at University of Passau since 2017. His research interest is on applied machine learning, web information retrieval and natural language processing. He published over 190 mostly peer-reviewed publications including journal publications, book chapters and books in the above-mentioned fields.

For more details see mgrani.github.io.